Favorite T.V. game shows, past or present...

[Joe Fields]

Let's see how big of a list we can get.

Does anyone remember Seven Keys, with Jack Narz, who was actually related to Tom Kennedy, who was the host of "You Don't Say!"

But really, my favorite is one I watch every day, save for the weekend. I'll let someone else tell me.

[Deja Q]

1. Match Game PM

[lost-in-nj]

4. I agree

I think they were always drunk and it was
hysterical...
My daughter watches Match Game on the Game channel
and she LOVES it...... LOL


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[Joe Fields]

5. One of the all-time greats..I didn't give a damn if the game even

got played. Just loved hearing all the banter back and forth from all the guests.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. ayuh!

[stuntcat]

22. Right on, that's what I vote for!

It's the BEST. I'm CrAZy about Brett and Charles :loveya:

[stuntcat]

25. (Brettness)

[Joe Fields]

26. freakin priceless!!

[Connonym]

51. Me too, plus Dick Clark on Pyramid

I don't care how much of it was scripted, Match Game far exceeded any other game show (hell half the talk shows) for fun banter.

Speaking of which, other than political stuff, are there any talk shows where the guests stay for the whole show (like Carson used to do)? Imagine, how all that smoking and drinking would go over today.

[geardaddy]

68. Yup.

Match Game either AM or PM.

And To Tell the Truth. I loved Kitty Carlisle (sp?)

[AlCzervik]

2. the Original Hollywood Squares.

[Joe Fields]

6. Another great one I used to watch all the time.

Yep, I'm a game show freak. Loved Paul Lynde....

[AlCzervik]

10. he was hilarious, i also used to love George Goebel.

[Joe Fields]

11. Goble was a laugh riot, with such a dry wit. Brings back memories...

[lost-in-nj]

8. I won tickets

to see Hollywood Squares in NY at
Radio City Music Hall
We had such a great time.....
The person WON the car.... It was a good day


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[Joe Fields]

12. When Peter Marshall used to host?

[lost-in-nj]

16. YUP

and Paul Lynde was the center square and
Charlie Weaver was there!!!!
Trying to remember if Wayland and Madame were there but I am not sure.....
AWESOME


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[AlCzervik]

18. that is spiffy!

[Parche]

67. Hollywood Squares

I miss Paul Lynde

[I Have A Dream]

3. Family Feud - It's the only game show that I ever liked. n/t

[Joe Fields]

7. With Richard Dawson?

[I Have A Dream]

14. Yes, with Richard. I've seen the new one, and it's OK, but Richard was such fun!

:)

[hellbound-liberal]

9. Match Game AM or PM. Gene Rayburn was great as well as his regular and "irregular" panelists

like Charles Nelson-Reilly, Brett Somers and Richard Dawson. I also really liked it when McLean Stevenson was on.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. You bet your life

[Joe Fields]

20. Say the secret word, .Remember George Fenneman? what a geek.

[BrotherBuzz]

29. "Who's Buried In Grant's Tomb?"

George Fenneman, like Gracie Allen, was from San Francisco, I liked him.

How long is a ten foot pole?

[Joe Fields]

31. Sorry. It's just that when I used to watch him, I couldn't help but laugh,

mainly because he played such a straight man to Groucho. I don't know how he managed.

[BrotherBuzz]

41. Gracie's straight man was named George, too

In a parallel universe, George Fennerman could have played Gracie's straight man.

[lizerdbits]

15. Price is Right was the #1 thing about summer as a kid

Watched it EVERY DAY, back when Bob Barker had brown hair.

[Joe Fields]

21. Do you remember the "Price Is Right" from the '60's, when Bill Cullen

was the host?

[lizerdbits]

39. Nope

Born in 1974.

[Recovered Repug]

50. Do you remember when Bob Barker hosted

Truth Or Consequences?

[Joe Fields]

53. Yes I do. He was about as skinny as the mic he was holding.

The contestants all had goofy things they had to perform.

[HERVEPA]

58. Yup

I loved it. Anyone remember the great Mad Magazine satire of it?

[AlCzervik]

24. "It's a new car!!! with California emissions!"

[Joe Fields]

27. Yep!!

:toast:

[wildhorses]

17. hollywood squares

to tell the truth

[Joe Fields]

23. To Tell the Truth, with Garry Moore as host. Another fine

Mark Goodson/Bill Todman production...:yourock:

[Joe Fields]

28. And "Let's Make a Deal," with Monty Hall

and the "Lovely Carol Merrill"

I watched way too many game shows...

[AlCzervik]

30. I want what jay has in the little box, no, i'll take curtain number 3, no wait oh christ!

that was on a really old George Carlin album, i think it Was either Toledo window box or Class clown, hilarious.

[Joe Fields]

33. I don't remember which album, but I remember Carlin saying,

"Oh, Monty...Oh, Monty!!"

I always wanted to take what was behind door #3, in Monty's Cookie Jar, whenever they would have that.

I used to get zonked a lot. I was terrible at picking what a contestant should go for.

[lost-in-nj]

37. The lovely Carol Merrill

was married to a VERY distant cousin of my Moms..
The cousin was actually

"Mr. SaraLee"

yup just like the cakes....
Nope I don't think they know we exist!!!!


LOL!!!!!!!!


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[Joe Fields]

48. So, Sara Lee is a he?

[bigwillq]

32. Press Your Luck

was one of my faves as well as Match Game...Pryamid.....Blockbusters.....Password...so many!

[Joe Fields]

34. That show kicked ass. I was sorry to hear when Peter Tamarken

died.

[bigwillq]

36. Me too.

:(

[KamaAina]

35. And STOP... at a whammy!

(wheeeeee-uuuuuuuuuh!)

[Nikia]

46. For some reason

My sister and I thought that they were saying "Big buts. Big butts..." instead of "Big bucks."
It's funny what kids mishear.

[Joe Fields]

47. That's a hoot...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[AllegroRondo]

59. remember the Michael Larson scandal on that show?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson#Larson.27s_Press_Your_Luck_appearance_statistics

[Joe Fields]

61. no, i don't remember, but that is utterly remarkable.

he had all of this figured out, before he became a contestant?

[Nickster]

70. No whammys.....No whammys.......STOP!

[GenDem]

38. Jeopardy

Don Pardot was the host when I was a kid. It was on when I came home for lunch, at noon, when I was in grade school. My mother was quite good, and always phrased her answers in the form of a question -- just like she was one of the contestants.

I think it's still a great game show, and I think Alex Trebek is a great host.

[Joe Fields]

43. ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. That is my all-time favorite.

I play it every day, and have watched since I was knee high to a clothes basket, when Art Fleming hosted.

[Left Is Write]

40. Not only is Jack Narz Tom Kennedy's brother, he was also...

Bill Cullen's brother-in-law.

Tom Kennedy's birth name is Jim Narz.

Anyway, I'm a bit of a game show buff. I can't list just one favorite, no way, no how.

I love the Price Is Right, and was sorry at the deaths of both Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy. I'm sorry about Bob Barker retiring - it just seemed for a while as if the show would go on and on forever. I also just love the black and white 50s and 60s TPIR that was hosted by Bill Cullen. GSN (formerly Game Show Network) no longer has the rights to air any version of TPIR, which is pretty sad.

Other favorites include almost all incarnation of Pyramid; Password, Password Plus and Super Password; Family Feud (Dawson version is the best, but I also like Ray Combs); Match Game in the Dawson days; To Tell The Truth (original with Bud Collyer and the 70s version with Garry Moore), What's My Line (particularly the John Daly version), Truth or Consequences, I've Got A Secret, Tic Tac Dough, Joker's Wild. Loved the lesser known b/w shows such as Name's The Same (all hosts, but especially Robert Q. Lewis).

Of course I like Jeopardy! too, though it seems in a class by itself. Alex Trebek also hosted Concentration, which I enjoyed.

I loved the Wheel Of Fortune as hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. I really liked the old shopping sprees the contestants could go on after winning a puzzle.

Someone else will probably name a bunch of shows I could happily agree with.

[Joe Fields]

45. Yes, I knew, but forgot about Narz and Bill Cullen. I really liked Bill Cullen.

I remember Bud Collyer. You mentioned What's My Line, and I loved that show, too. I remember bald headed Bennett Cerf, and the lovely Dorothy Kilgallen. Do you remember High Rollers, with an Afro headed young Alex Trebec?

[Awsi Dooger]

52. I guarantee Joker's Wild was fixed

No question about it. If there's one thing I know it's odds and probability. Nothing on TV ever defied basic math more than the wheel on Joker's Wild when it was the deciding spin. A popular defending champ would be losing and down to his final spin. Jack Barry would say the only chance was Joker-Joker-Joker, and then it would happen almost every time. I was in junior high, watching at home before school. That phony wheel would bolt me out of the chair screaming.

I had afternoon shift many of those years, during the baby boom era when schools were jammed. I told many of my friends how absurd the wheel was on that show. Then I'd see my friends at school in the afternoon and we'd be laughing that it happened again and again.

Not until more than a decade later did I find out Joker's Wild was the same crew who had been caught in the game show scandals of the late '50s. No kidding. Once they got another chance they simply rigged the wheel and not the questions. The questions on that show were always easy, so the key was the dollar amount on the spin.

I'm hardly a conspiracy guy. In fact, I get ripped for denying the favored conspiracies on this site. But I would wager anything that show was not on the level.

Let's see, I loved most of the shows mentioned in this thread. I'll also throw in High Rollers with Alex Trebek and Ruta Lee. I agree with Left is Write that Wheel of Fortune was far superior when Chuck Woolery was hosting in the late '70s and the format was somewhat different. The shopping sprees were great strategy to see how much they could fit in under the dollar amount. Then some boobs would choose to put the remainder on account instead of gift certificate, which would make me howl.

Oh yeah, another obscure one I liked was Jackpot!.

Those late shift days were great in the morning, during 7th, 8th and 10th grade. I watched The Fugitive at 9 AM, then The Saint at 10. Followed by 2 hours of game shows before going to school at 12:30. Once in a while I played golf before school. And I got into politics via following the Watergate hearings in the morning before school. The housewives were ticked that their cherished soap operas were preempted.

[Joe Fields]

54. So you remember High Rollers, too. Wasn't Trebec's hair wild?

And yes, the old Wheel was interesting. Except, I always thought that the ceramic unicorns were a bit pricey.

[Awsi Dooger]

73. I saw the old Wheel taped in LA

That was summer '77, at NBC Studios the same place they tape the Tonight Show. We went on a Sunday afternoon and they taped several shows. Chuck Woolery and the letter turning woman would go offstage and change clothes between tapings.

That was a very hot July day and it was hell waiting in line outside. I missed the damn door prize by one person. The woman ahead of me won and I was ticked.

The thing I remember most is someone in the audience said the solution to a puzzle out loud and Chuck Woolery heard it and insisted the puzzle be tossed and a new one inserted, necessitating a re-taping. It wasn't very loud and not everyone heard it but Woolery blurted out, "Hey, I heard that," and stopped the taping. When a few people on the set said they hadn't heard it and the contestants also said they had not heard it, Woolery asserted himself and said he heard it loud and clear and the segment was going to start from scratch.

And yes, I remember Alex Trebek's wild hair on High Rollers. Funny how perspective changes. As a junior high school kid I thought Ruta Lee was a bit old for a game show babe at the time, but now that I look at her birth date she was still in her late 30s at the time, much younger than I am now.

[TrogL]

42. The Gong Show

[Kat45]

44. I always loved Jeopardy Also loved Name That Tune

[Joe Fields]

55. Name that tune was fun. Kathy Lee Gifford and Tarzan!

[Kat45]

64. And that's when I first started to strongly dislike Kathy Lee.

:D

[philosophie_en_rose]

49. Win Ben Stein's Money.

Oh I disliked Ben Stein, but I liked to see him get his comeuppance.

[Joe Fields]

56. With you all the way. I really don't know how I could bring myself

to watch it, when I loathed Ben Stein. The show must have been good for me to be able to do that.

[Fox Mulder]

57. Jeopardy.

I never miss an episode.

[Strawman]

60. $1.98 Beauty Show

[Joe Fields]

62. I think I n remember. Did Rip Taylor host it?

:hi:

[Strawman]

72. Yes he did

[Joe Fields]

63. Anyone remember Card Sharks?

Or Concentration, with Hugh Downs as host?

[terrya]

65. "Jeopardy", without question.

Both the 60's version hosted by Art Fleming and today's version, hosted by Alex Trebek.

"Jeopardy" is a fun and challenging game show. Plus, someone VERY special to me was recently a contestant and did very well. :-)

[Joe Fields]

66. I know, and I'm envious...I took the Jeopardy test three times, over

the years, when they were looking for contestants from the Kansas City area, and passed the test each time, but was never called to L.A. to be on. You are on a waiting list for a year, and they can call you up at any time, but they never called me. It's one of life's disappointments. I really wanted to be a contestant...

[geardaddy]

69. Joker's Wild

when I was a kid I used to watch it after school.

C'moooon Jokers!

Oh, and the Newlywed Game and the Dating Game.

[Joe Fields]

71. I met Bob Eubanks once. He is a habitual dirty joke teller.

I was with him for about 45 minutes once, while he was waiting for a limo, and he told me one dirty joke after another. The man is hilarious!